Planet
We are adopting measures to reduce our water and environmental footprint, ensuring adequate resource management and betting on ecological balance.
Clean Water and Sanitation
Water Performance
At Grupo Herdez®, our commitment to sustainability reflects what we carry within: a deep responsibility for water care and community well-being. In 2022, we took a historic step by issuing $3,000 million pesos in Sustainability-Linked Bonds, committing to reduce our water consumption per ton produced by 25% by 2030. With this, we became the first food company in Mexico to issue a bond with these characteristics.
Responsible Production and Consumption
Pact for Food (Pacto por la Comida)
The Pact for Food of the Mexican Food Bank Network (Red BAMX) is a voluntary agreement that brings together companies and organizations along the food chain – from producers to consumers – to make food and beverage production and consumption systems more sustainable and thus avoid Food Waste.
The aim of the project is to contribute to a 50.0% prevention of Food Waste in Mexico within the next 10 years, by providing advice on the processes applied by member companies and organizations to improve the efficiency of food management in the value chain.
For a More Lively World
“Por un Mundo más Vivo” (For a More Living World) is a movement backed by the Herdez brand, which integrates actions, tips, and initiatives that promote responsible consumption habits for the conservation of the planet. Through this platform, we carry out several initiatives that have not only helped us grow brand loyalty and increase net sales in the first half of 2018, but have also allowed us to contribute to improving environmental conditions through promoting a culture of recycling and reusing cans, as well as raising awareness about marine ecosystems through beach cleanups.
The initiatives promoted by Grupo Herdez, through the Herdez brand, focus on:
● Rolling for the planet
● Beach cleanups
● Let’s illuminate a better tomorrow
● We transform waste into solutions
● Virtual Rally
Recycling
As part of this effort, in 2024 we increased the use of recycled packaging and packing materials, from 12.7% in 2023 to 13.3%. 98.1% of our total packaging has recyclability characteristics and/or is reusable.
Climate Action
Agriculture Sustainability Program
We have a commitment to the Mexican countryside and its well-being. Through the Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture Program (PASyR) existing since 2016, we create long-term alliances with agricultural suppliers with the aim of obtaining high-quality raw materials, cultivated with responsible and more natural practices. In 2024, we acquired 134,081 tons of agricultural and beekeeping raw materials, of which 57.6% came from PASyR-adhered suppliers.
Environmental Management
Without natural resources, Grupo Herdez could not exist. Therefore, it is crucial to work under a sustainability system that enables us to anticipate and manage the impacts derived from environmental changes to guarantee sustained growth in our operations.
Each of our business units has change agents that, jointly with other departments of the company and our stakeholders, design strategies, directives, and policies focused on generating actions that favor environmental care and protection; this way, we promote a culture of respect, care, and synergy that allows us to overcome the climate, social, and political change that we face on a yearly basis.
Our plants submit to internal and external audits under the terms of reference of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Produraduría Federal de Protección Ambiental (PROFEPA)); with this, we have been able to obtain and ratify the Clean Industry Certification (Certificación de Industria Limpia) in two of our plants. Also, our qualified personnel is in charge of the execution and report of the actions and performance indicators of their city.
Affordable and clean energy
Energy and emissions
We are committed to generating actions to reduce our environmental footprint, efficiently using energy resources and prioritizing the use of fuels with less environmental impact. In 2018, Grupo Herdez inaugurated the Cogeneration Project at the El Duque Industrial Complex in San Luis Potosí, where one of the Company’s most important industrial complexes is located, with which we generate electrical and thermal energy and comply with SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), as well as SDG 13 (Climate Action), by prioritizing the use of fuels with less environmental impact and the consumption of electrical energy from cleaner sources. In 2024, we reduced the total consumption of non-renewable fuels by 22.3%, from 757,495.75 GJ consumed in 2023 to 588,325.00 GJ this year.